Power and Politics

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Basic Concepts
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Theories of the State
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Contents include: A basic overview of the concepts of power, authority, politics and ideology; Weber's typology of power. Contents include: The development of the modern state; stateless society; statelike society; traditional states; feudal and capitalist states.
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Theories of Power
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Contents include: Elite theories; Pluralist theories; Parsonian Functionalism; Classical Pluralism; Elite Pluralism; Elite Theory (Mosca and Pareto) Contents include: Conflict theories of power (Weberian and Marxist); Instrumental Marxism; Structural Marxism; Milliband, Poulantzas and Gramsci
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The Political Process
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This is the Introductory chapter to the Power and Politics module and covers, amongst other things, the role of political parties and social movements (New and Old), pressure/interest groups and the mass media in the political process. The material is taken from the published version of A2 Sociology for AQA and it's designed to meet the requirements of the 2006 AQA Specification (although it's going to be equally applicable to the new (2008) AQA Specification).
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Voting Behaviour 1
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Download Parety Manifestos Party Manifestos: 2005
Contents include: Introduction to political systems (totalitarian and democratic); types of democracy. Download a copy of the Labour, Conservative and Liberal Democrat manifestos.


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Pluralist Model of Power
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This short PowerPoint presentation offers a range of definitions of power and provides a visual demonstration of pluralist models of power in a UK context.  
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The political world is, as you well know, fast-moving (a week, after all, is a long time in politics) and the Notes available in this section may be getting a little dated in places.

Wouldn't it be nice, therefore, to own something that's a little more contemporary that covers the full AQA A2 Specification for Power and Politics?

You'll be wanting to purchase this very exhaustive text, then.

 

A2 Sociology for AQA
Chris. Livesey and Tony Lawson
Hodder Arnold
(May 2006)

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